Transportation news from around the world
Get a Move on [Newsweek, 20th October 2003]
Led by Tokyo, cities are turning to wireless technology to untangle their traffic jams

Before leaving to meet his friend for dinner the other night, Sakae Fujimoto checked the local traffic report. Instead of flipping stations on the radio, he booted up his in-car navigation system.

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Houston Finds Some Pain in Car-Rail Coexistence [New York Times, 25th June 2004]
For a quarter-century, the debate over whether Houston should have a light rail system pitted a vision of environmentally friendly mass transit against the fossil-fueled love affair between Houstonians and their cars.

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An era in transport system coming to an end [The Hindu, 26th June 2004]

An era in the city transport system will come to an end on June 30 when the metre gauge (MG) suburban section between Egmore and Tambaram will be closed for gauge conversion.

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Bad driving holds the secret to traffic forecasts [Innovations Report]

University of Duisburg-Essen, 1st July 2004

A traffic simulation system is helping drivers by predicting jams on Germany’s autobahn network up to an hour before they happen. The secret of its success is to take into account the way real drivers - and their cars - behave. When engineers model the way road traffic flows they break the traffic down into three categories: freely flowing, jammed, and an intermediate state called synchronised flow in which dense traffic moves in unison, like marchers moving in step.

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Last updated 26th June 2004